Macro Seminars spring 2003

SPRING 2003 MACROECONOMIC SEMINARS ON THURSDAYS
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER 

All seminars are held in Room 2, via San Mansueto 4, from 12.45 pm to 2:30 pm, unless otherwise indicated.

Thursday, January 9
Richard Lyons (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
"How is Macro News Transmitted to Exchange Rates?" (Joint with Martin Evans)

Thursday, January 16
Riccardo Rovelli and Luca Lambertini (Università di Bologna)
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination and Macroeconomic Stabilization. A Theoretical Analysis"

Thursday, January 23
Eva Nagypal (Northwestern University)
"Where to Apply to College or Matching with Incomplete Information"

Thursday, January 30
No seminar scheduled

See Bocconi Job Market Seminars

Thursday, March 6
Alan Sutherland (University of St. Andrews)
"International Monetary Policy Coordination and Financial Market Integration"

Thursday, March 13
Guido Lorenzoni (Princeton University)
"The Costs of Credit Booms"

Thursday, March 20
Antonio Ciccone (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
"Extent of the Market and Economic Growth 1960-1996" (joint with Francisco Alcal)

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, March 26
Fabio Ghironi (Boston College)
"Productivity Shocks and Consumption Smoothing in the International Economy"

Thursday, March 27
Davide Ticchi (Universit degli Studi di Urbino)
"Endogenous Constitutions"

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Monday, April 7
Oded Stark (University of Bonn)
"Rethinking the Brain Drain"

Thursday, April 10
Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University)
"Cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents" (joint with Jan Boone)

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Monday, April 14
Marco Buti and Mario Nava ( European Commission)
"Towards a European Budgetary System"

Thursday, April 17
No seminar scheduled

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, April 23
David Lopez-Salido (Bank of Spain)
"Technology Shocks and Job Flows" with Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)

Thursday, April 24
Helene Rey (Princeton)
"Exchange Rate, Equity Prices and Capital Flows" with Harald Hau (INSEAD)

Thursday, May 1
No seminar scheduled

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, May 7
Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)
"Global Sourcing" with Pol Antrs (MIT)

Thursday, May 8
Michael Woodford (Princeton University)
"The Zero Interest-Rate Bound and Optimal Monetary Policy" with Gauti Eggertsson (IMF)

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, May 14
Costas Azariadis (UCLA)
"Endogenous Debt Constraints in Lifecycle Economies" with Luisa Lambertini (UCLA)

Thursday, May 15
Michele Boldrin (University of Minnesota and CEPR)
"Rent-Seeking and Innovation" with David Levine (UCLA) 

Thursday, May 22
Gianluca Violante (New York University and CEPR)
"The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the U.S." with J.Heathcote (Georgetown University) and K.Storesletten (IIES, Stockholm and CEPR)

OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Friday, May 23
Jordi Gali (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules"  and
"Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption" with J.Valls (Bank of Spain) and D. Lopez-Salido (Bank of Spain)

Thursday, May 29
Plutarchos Sakellaris (University of Maryland)
"Real versus Financial frictions for investment" with Nihal Bayraktar (World Bank) and Philip Vermeulen (European Central Bank)

Thursday, June 12
Eric Leeper (Indiana University)
"Modest Policy Interventions" with Tao Zha (Indiana University and NBER)